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Quotes by Writer
"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."
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"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
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"With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive."
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"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."
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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
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"Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."
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"Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain."
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"I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I."
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"Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."
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"I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things."
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"I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious."
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"Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control."
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"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time."
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"To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another."
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"A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it."
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"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority."
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"Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. 'The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves."
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"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."
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"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news."
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"Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories."
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"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."
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"Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns."
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"By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West."
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"People Will Hear What The Wish To Hear, So Why Can't Say and Do What You Wish In Life."
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"He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity."
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"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
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"Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over."
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"Sunsets are loved because they vanish.Flowers are loved because they go.The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart.These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns."
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"But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort."
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"I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them."
Want,
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"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."
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"When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back."
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